Will using DotNetNuke (DNN) hurt my google SEO ratings?

[Ready to Learn]

I am considering changing my sites over to DNN but am worried that it might hurt my google ratings that I have worked hard to get. Along with an answer, could you supply your resources?Thanks


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[coredeveloper]

DNN is not a black hat stuff -- it is simply "an open source web application framework ideal for creating, deploying and managing interactive web, intranet, and extranet sites securely."

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/

In fact, I've seen some modules that allows for integration with Google products such as Google sitemap generator, even integration with Google Analytics

There will, however, be challenges when you will move to DNN -- from URL rewriting (I believe DNN supports search engine friendly URLs but not human friendly URLs), as well as dynamic URL configuration

There are a number of DNN-centric forums that you can check out as well as sites that offer DNN modules and skins

[derek88]

In using DNN you have the same basic limitations that you have with any other dynamically created site. The three things to avoid are:

1. Requiring any type of SID or other unique identifier to the point that it ends up in the URL string.
2. Requiring a cookie to be set.
3. Appending and abundance of variables to the end of the URL. Try to stay at 3 or less.

The bottom line is that DNN and all of the others do all of their magic at the server level, but the documents are delivered in plain old HTML. This is a very good thing.